Please read through the introduction notes before proceeding to apply via the button at the bottom of this page.
Fee £55 (with 10% commission on sales over £500) OR £110 (no commission)
Application deadline to open your own studio is March 4
The Town Hall, Methodist Church Hall and Making Mill are now full.
This summer’s event will take place in Hebden Bridge, Mytholmroyd and the surrounding villages.
Todmorden will not be included as Tod artists who take part have previously chosen to exhibit at venues in Hebden Bridge rather than open their own studio space. If you’re based in Tod you’re welcome to join us in Hebden, see shared venue options below.
Contact todmordenopenstudios@gmail.com to discuss possible dates for a Tod Open Studios.
Opening hours are 10.30am - 5pm from Friday to Sunday.
We can allow variance to the standard hours but require a valid reason as it makes promoting the event and design of maps, flyers etc. difficult.
A number of artists are organising venues to exhibit their work during the July 5 - 7 event so if your own studio or home isn’t suitable to invite the public in you can still take part.
Open Studios requires artists to join on an individual basis. Whatever arrangement you make about sharing a venue you must also fill in the application form and pay the membership fee (see below), after you have confirmation of your venue.
Application deadline for Town Hall, Methodist Church Hall and the Making Mill is February 23
If you have a venue you’d like to share with other artists contact us and we can list it here.
Find out more about exhibiting at Hebden Bridge Town Hall, Hebden Bridge Methodist Church Hall or The Making Mill.
Educational groups that don’t have work for sale or group exhibitions where one or two pieces of work per artist are displayed may be able to take part as a single listing and not require each participant to pay the membership fee.
Please get in touch to discuss possible involvement.
The exhibition in the Town Hall, June 17 - July 8, allows the public to view a piece of your artwork for a whole month on the run up to Open Studios itself. With the café, river terrace and lots of events taking place during this time it’s great exposure.
Over fifty shops, cafés, galleries and other venues gave us space in their windows to display artwork for the week before Open Studios last year. It was a tremendous success so we intend to host a window trail again this summer, June 28 - July 8.
Both of these events are also open to associate members if you can’t join us for July 5 - 7.
Last year's brochure design and layout proved very popular so the format will remain the same this year.
Find out more about brochure layout, images and reduced rate artists’ ads.
Reduced artists’ rates ads in the brochure are also available to associate members not open for July's event.
The address of the studio or venue where you will be open this July 5-7 and links for website and social media, etc.
Space in the brochure is limited, so this will be 145 characters written in the first person. You can add more to the website listing later.
The space allocated for your image in the brochure is ratio 8:9 portrait aspect, so if you provide an image that is particularly elongated in either dimension it will not optimise the space.
We would like to use artists images for publicity and send to press so require a good quality image that represents your work. We can easily reduce the size for the brochure if you provide a large file image.
The minimum size we will accept is 1,000 pixels on the shortest axis. But if you upload a small image file it will not be used in any printed publicity or sent to the press.
Find out more about brochure layout, images and reduced rate artists’ ads.
We need confirmation of appropriate public liability insurance covering July 5-7.
You don’t have to include that now to apply but we will need it by March 17 to be listed in the brochure.
The Artists Network, A-N, provide public liability insurance included with their membership for £38.
Some home insurance companies may cover you for a one off event in your own home but you will need to provide confirmation.
To take part in Open Studios July 5-7 there are two payment options.
Option 1
£55 & 10% commission on all sales above £500.
Option 2
£110 flat rate, no commission.
Any venue hire fee is in addition to this.
If you want to enjoy all the benefits of being an Open Studios artist but won’t be open during July 5-7 you are still welcome to join us.
Just £25 to have your own page on our website, join networking and social events, workshops and social media promotions. You can submit work for the Town Hall exhibition, June 17 - July 8, and have work included in the Window Trail throughout Hebden Bridge, June 28 - July 8, and you'll get a discount to join our Christmas event.
Associate membership is for artists not open during July 5-7 and does not include a brochure listing. You would be eligible for artists’ rates for an ad in the brochure though.
Find out more to join any time as an associate member.
Keep a record of all text you enter on the form in a word document in case your internet glitches.
Application deadline to open your own studio is March 4
The Town Hall, Methodist Church Hall and Making Mill are now full.